Towards a stepwise decision-making process for distinguishing favorable domains for sourcing in an enterprise

Towards a stepwise decision-making process for distinguishing favorable domains for sourcing in an enterprise

Maria, P.R.

Dietz, J.L.G. (mentor)

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Software Technology

Information Architecture

2010-06-30

The lack of methodology has proven to be a weakness in many sourcing initiatives. This research is an attempt to rationalize the decisions decision-makers often intuitively make. The following question is addressed in this research: How can one decide which domains in an enterprise are favorable candidates for sourcing? To this end, the concept of a domain that is useful for sourcing decision-making is introduced, as well as a system to assign a score for favorability for sourcing to a domain. Furthermore, criteria for sourcing are uncovered, and ordered based on their distinguishing power and level of dif?culty of checking. On the basis of this ordering, a stepwise decision-making model is introduced, which provides a relatively quick way of determining the favorability of a domain for sourcing.

sourcing
outsourcing
shared services
decision-making
domain
motives
criteria

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2010 Maria, P.R.